Thinning a pad

[Cat Gas]

It's all well and good to expand and thicken a pad, but I have a preset I was to flatten down a bit.

Is the only ways in doing this various kinds of compression and/or EQing?

 

[logikz]

highpass it

 

[Dead Cosmonaut]

pnoumenon (the hip hop/dnb one not the dub one) showed me that in the space designer in logic if you crank down the dry function it totally spaces out and thins a pad. I don't know what program you are using but I hope it heads you in the right direction.

 

[groelle]

yeah ^^ wet it. chorus/phaser/flanger/reverb/slight equing ftw.

 

[Krispy]

It seems women want a thin pad with the absorbent power of a thick pad

 

[kama]

bandpass even, resample.

You really cant do very much unless you can touch a synth preset - then you can drop the cutoff, change the oscillators pulse width or whatever. For a sample its hard to do, it's all EQ basically.

 

[druu]

Highpass or bandpass will do the trick. Or even cut down on the amount of notes you use in your chords.